Ybbs () is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

. Its

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

is . Its source is located on the

Zellerrain Pass Zellerrain Pass (elevation 1,125 m, 3,691 ft) is a mountain pass in the Ybbstal Alps, located on border between Lower Austria and Styria, west of Mariazell. The pass road has a steep grade of up to 22 percent. The river Ybbs has its source at ...

near Mariazell. In the beginning, the river is called , then onwards from the border between

and

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

up to

Lunz am See Lunz am See is a municipality in the district of Scheibbs, Lower Austria, Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a ...

it is called . From there until its confluence to the Danube at

Ybbs an der Donau Ybbs an der Donau () (short: Ybbs) is a town in Austria. It was established in 1317. Throughout the town, from the intersection of the important trade routes and along the Danube the town has preserved a site that already had great economic importa ...

, it is finally called Ybbs. The Ybbs has a strongly meandering course and flows for around from the South in a northward direction. Along the river there are many metal and lumber industry plants. The most important towns on the Ybbs are

Göstling an der Ybbs Göstling an der Ybbs is a municipality in the district of Scheibbs in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. Population Twin towns Göstling an der Ybbs is twinned with: * Hüttenberg Hüttenberg is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in ...

, Hollenstein an der Ybbs, Opponitz,

Ybbsitz Ybbsitz is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria. Geography Ybbsitz lies in the Mostviertel (English: ''Most Quarter'') is the southwestern quarter of the four quarters of Lower Austria (the northeast state of th ...

, Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Amstetten, and Ybbs an der Donau. The valley of the river Ybbs is called: ''Ybbs Valley'', or ''Ybbs Field'' (german: Ybbsfeld). In 788, it was the site of a battle, between

Franks The Franks ( la, Franci or ) were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was first mentioned in 3rd-century Roman sources, and associated with tribes between the Lower Rhine and the Ems River, on the edge of the Roman Empire.H. Schutz: Tools, ...

and Avars.

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* Rivers of Lower Austria Rivers of Austria {{Austria-river-stub

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